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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Seymour Krim and Mary McCarthy have in common?
(a) They were married to each other.
(b) They both have a fascination with food.
(c) Both espoused Communist views.
(d) Both lost their parents at a young age.

2. What is the author's opinion of public executions in "The Execution of Tropmann?"
(a) Public executions are tools of the class system.
(b) Public executions are necessary for law and order.
(c) Public executions should be ended.
(d) Public executions are thrilling.

3. What is a typical Virginia Woolf focus in her essays?
(a) The bounty of nature.
(b) Joy.
(c) Death.
(d) Poverty.

4. Who wrote "Hashis in Marseilles"?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Walter Benjamin.
(c) Maria Edgeworth.
(d) Michel de Montaigne.

5. Who wrote "He and I"?
(a) Natalia Ginzburg.
(b) Richard Steele.
(c) Plutarch.
(d) Samuel Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Once More to the Lake"?

2. Who wrote "This Tool Is Life?"

3. Who wrote "The Execution of Tropmann?"

4. Who wrote "The Ring of Time?"

5. When was Jose Luis Borges born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jose Luis Borges' perspective on his own increasing blindness, as revealed in his essay "Blindness?"

2. What is the subject of Krim's "For My Brothers and Sisters in the Failure Business"? What feelings does Krim express in the essay?

3. What tone does Mary McCarthy use in "My Confession?" How does she approach herself as well as the subjects of her essays?

4. What tone is Max Beerbohm famous for in his essays?

5. What level of literary output did G. K. Chesterton achieve in his lifetime?

6. What is the subject of Junichiro Tanizaki's "In Praise of Shadows?" What hope does Tanizaki express at the end of the essay?

7. How does Seymour Krim's life compare to Mary McCarthy's? How did Krim's childhood impact his writing?

8. What kind of literature did Virginia Woolf write? What was a common focus that united her work?

9. What is Robert Louis Stevenson best known for today?

10. What are the particulars of Ivan Turgenev's "The Execution of Tropmann"?

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